Got my Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) Re-Certification in the mail today.

[Hugh R]

Have to do it every five years. I have to show courses taken in continuing ed., conferences attended and PROOF that I actually went to them, like airline tickets, hotel room bills, etc. This is to show you didn't just pay the conference fee and never showed up.

I know more than one CIH who got their cert. yanked because he or she didn't have the backup documentation for an audit. I worked hard to get it, and I can't imagine the thinking of those who lost theirs because they didn't do their paperwork and document it.

Anyway, no biggie, but I'm good for another 5 years. I plan to retire in about 7 years, so one more recert in 2017.

[pete3799]

Congrats.
I had to look it up. So your the guy that makes everyone brush their teeth,comb their hair and tie their shoelaces before you push them off a cliff?

[Hugh R]

Exactly, we also make sure buildings are clean.

In all seriousness, its worker exposure to noise, radiation, vibration, airborne contaminants, ventilation, radiation to a certain extent, and other stuff. In the Health and Safety arena it is similar in distinction to a CPA in accounting.

[azasadny]

Congrats, Hugh! I know what a hassle of recertifying and credentialing can be!!

[craigster59]

Did they make you turn your head and cough?

[vas930]

Nice work, Hugh.

[tevake]

Thats great Hugh, So we will be able to follow many up coming movie making adventures. Love the location pics.

Cheers Richard

[rcecale]

Fine job, Marine!

Randy

[Tobra]

Cool, they make us sign in a couple of times a day at our conferences to get our CME credits. So just getting a hotel room at Disneyland is not enough, you have to get your little badge scanned a few times each day.

Some smoking hot reps for some of those medical device companies

[Hugh R]

Update, five years later. I re-certified again, and probably for the last time in my career. I'm good for the next five years. In five more years, I'll be 68 and I doubt I'll bother doing it again. I'm retiring in a year or less and I can't justify the future expenses (on my dime) of going to conferences around the US and Canada to earn "Points".

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Got my Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) Re-Certification in the mail today..

Does it look like this?



Just yanking your chain, I know what it really means and how much work is involved.
We have about half a dozen certified industrial hygienists where I work ......

I had a couple certs that required CE's, but I only bothered to keet one current. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it.

[Hugh R]

Thanks Sammy, most people have never heard of a CIH, and no reason that they should. I'm just glad to be done with the re-cert. Its important enough to me that if my employer didn't pay for me to attend continuing education courses, I've have done them at my own time and expense.

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Exactly, we also make sure buildings are clean.

In all seriousness, its worker exposure to noise, radiation, vibration, airborne contaminants, ventilation, radiation to a certain extent, and other stuff. In the Health and Safety arena it is similar in distinction to a CPA in accounting.

Ever been to a Bieber concert? lol

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

...most people have never heard of a CIH, and no reason that they should...

I loves me some of your kind.

At my employer (hello US DOE) we, the simple/stupid users of these work areas somehow need to know such arcane info like "what is the allowable removable Be contamination for X thing? 50 ug/cm2, 500 ug/cm2..." If we fail that test we don't get to walk into that room even to check a fire extinguisher's expiry date. Why would the fire dude, or me the engineer dude, care what the release requirements are? We'd call a pro, that's what we do...

For icky stuff like Be, U and Pu I just assume that I shouldn't smoke it, eat it, make it into smaller pieces or even lick it. Always wear gloves and a condom...

[Hugh R]

mjohnson, thanks for the kind thoughts. I work in the movie industry and to the best of my knowledge, I'm one of 3 of us in the entire industry. Smoke effects, artificial fogs, bullet hits, noise from explosions, water quality when filming Pirates of the Caribbean in Dominica and St. Vincent, where the locals bathe and get their water supply from the same streams. Local hospitals with a 30% Staph infection rate, and how to deal with medi-vac of cast and crew back to a real US hospital. Food sanitation so the local hires for food preparation don't take down 300 cast and crew members because they don't understand the importance of hand washing.....

Vaccinations for 300 crew members for localized illnesses/disease..

Lot's of stuff nobody ever would think about in making a movie.

[Pazuzu]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

mjohnson, thanks for the kind thoughts. I work in the movie industry and to the best of my knowledge, I'm one of 3 of us in the entire industry. Smoke effects, artificial fogs, bullet hits, noise from explosions, water quality when filming Pirates of the Caribbean in Dominica and St. Vincent, where the locals bathe and get their water supply from the same streams. Local hospitals with a 30% Staph infection rate, and how to deal with medi-vac of cast and crew back to a real US hospital. Food sanitation so the local hires for food preparation don't take down 300 cast and crew members because they don't understand the importance of hand washing.....

Vaccinations for 300 crew members for localized illnesses/disease..

Lot's of stuff nobody ever would think about in making a movie.

Uh...Make America Movies Again! MAMA!

No need to worry about those...locals...if all movies were inspired, designed, written, created, filmed and processed 100% in the USA!



Unless we can find out how to move St Peter's Basilica into Nebraska...

[porsche tech]

Do they post your name on the closing credits?--Dave

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Auditor requirements for c.e. in Vail, Colorado:

Things to keep-
Hotel receipt- YES!
Plane ticket- YES!

Things NOT to keep*
Ski lift ticket- NO!
Baggage receipt- Skis in plane- NO!
Slopeside bar tab- NO
Pictures of you buying round of drinks for hot babes in slopeside bar- NO!
New goggles at ski shop receipt- NO!

Do NOT leave YELP reviews of Vail Chophouse/ etc... while eating there at lunch.

*meaning do not show auditor's the things marked NO.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by mjohnson

I loves me some of your kind.

At my employer (hello US DOE) we, the simple/stupid users of these work areas somehow need to know such arcane info like "what is the allowable removable Be contamination for X thing? 50 ug/cm2, 500 ug/cm2..." If we fail that test we don't get to walk into that room even to check a fire extinguisher's expiry date. Why would the fire dude, or me the engineer dude, care what the release requirements are? We'd call a pro, that's what we do...

For icky stuff like Be, U and Pu I just assume that I shouldn't smoke it, eat it, make it into smaller pieces or even lick it. Always wear gloves and a condom...

Tedious doesn't begin to describe it, but almost all those rules and requirements are dictated by law.
Darn burrow-crats making up rules about stuff they don't understand, and the CIH have to deal with it and try to keep the company in compliance. Not easy.

[drcoastline]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

mjohnson, thanks for the kind thoughts. I work in the movie industry and to the best of my knowledge, I'm one of 3 of us in the entire industry. Smoke effects, artificial fogs, bullet hits, noise from explosions, water quality when filming Pirates of the Caribbean in Dominica and St. Vincent, where the locals bathe and get their water supply from the same streams. Local hospitals with a 30% Staph infection rate, and how to deal with medi-vac of cast and crew back to a real US hospital. Food sanitation so the local hires for food preparation don't take down 300 cast and crew members because they don't understand the importance of hand washing.....

Vaccinations for 300 crew members for localized illnesses/disease..

Lot's of stuff nobody ever would think about in making a movie.

WOW! congratulations. That is quite a task and an awful lot of responsibility and forethought. You're right never would have thought all that is necessary to make a movie. No wonder they cost so much to make.